apprehensive
B2CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Feeling anxious or fearful that something bad may happen.
You seem a little apprehensive about the injection; would it help if I talked you through it first?
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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